Chapter 3 Fighting for a Lost Cause.

Remus ran from black veiled person to black veiled person searching for Carina. Her Portkey had shown up at the Weasley's alone. Remus had jumped the nearest fire place and flooed to Hogwarts as fast as he could.

First he made his way to the funeral lawn and when that hadn't produced her, he ran back to the school, where he scowered the corridors for her.

"Carina!" viberated through the halls and echoed high in the buttresses of the castle. He made his way up the stairs his head wiping back and forth looking for the girl gone M.I.A. As he rounded a corner at a run a black blur flew passed heading the opposite direction. He snapped his head and watch the black blur disappear down the hall. It was her!

"Carina! Wait!" Remus screamed to her as he turned and followed her down the hall.

Finally he was catching up to her, she was still running relentlessly fast, so he stretched his arm out and grapped hers thus stopping the chase.

"Carina what are you doing?!" He yelled at her forcing her to stop and acknowledge him.

"I'm looking for anwsers!" she shouted excitedly as pulled away and tried to run again. Remus grabbed the arm back and forced her to look at him.

"You didn't show up at the Weasley's!" he cried still holding her arm.

"I know, I'm sorry Remus, but I couldn't face anyone at the moment, I needed to be alone and think. And I think I would have exploded if I was forced back into that house right now."

"What do you mean?! The Order is working it's arse off keeping you safe! And you decide to run off and play hide-and-seek!"

"There is nothing to protect me from! I'm not completely lame! I've been taking care of myself for years!"

"Yes but before now no one knew about you!"

"Severus did!" Carina finally yelled back at Remus.

Remus could practically fell his blood pressure rise as he heard those words fall from her mouth. "You act as if you trust the bloody TRAITOR!"

"I DO!" She hurled back the words cutting like a knife and even through the shadow the viel made he could see the sparkle in her eyes. "I trust in him! At least until I have all the proof to whom was the victim and whom was the guilty party!"

"HE KILLED YOUR FATHER!" Remus flung the sharp words at her as if they were throwing knives.

"Some things are worse then death." She said through clentched teeth and tears falling from her eyes.

Remus scoffed at the remark and thrust a portkey into her hand, and before she could throw it he yelled "Portis!"

Carina landed in a heap on the floor of aroom, she sat up as fast as she could and looked around. She was in the kitchen of The Burrow. She stood up and ran for the fire place in the living room. She knew she had about 20 seconds to get into the floo before Remus would step out and stop her again. She leaped over one of the couches and was two steps away from the fire place when it turned green and she ran head first into Remus.

"Humph!" Remus grunted at the blunt wallop to his chest.

"Oooouah" Carina breathed out from the ground were she was striving to regain her breath. She looked up to Remus who was holding his stomach and glaring at her.

"Where do you think your going?" He asked amazed at her.

"I have to go home!" she cried.

"You can't leave this house!"

"Why not?!" she looked as if he had just pulled his nose off his face.

"Snape knows where your house is!" He said giving the same look back to her.
"So!?"

"AH!" You still think that he is innocent!"

"Until proven guilty!" she cried back.

"I can't believe you are sticking up for HIM! Harry saw the whole thing! And you can't go! So just get over it!"

"Whats wrong with you?!"

"I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU TOO!"

Carina frowned and looked up to him, he looked apsolutly passionate about it. She pulled the veil that was falling hapazardly off her head.

"Remus, your not going to lose me." she looked at him with those sweet blue eyes just begging him to stand aside and let her into the floo.

"And your not going to leave The Burrow." He grabbed the pot of floo powder and walked from the room.

"Remus please!" Carina cried. But he was gone.

Pacing the room back and forth, back and forth, and Lachlin following her as always, Carina stretched her mind around her problem trying to find a solusion. There had to be something she could do! If she couldn't get to the memory Severus left her then she needed someone elses. Who was there except a bunch of death eaters though!?

She moved to her bed and sat down on the edge. Lachlin sat in front of her and she looked into his big brown eyes. "Hey boy, you miss Severus too, don't you?" she patted his head and began to rub between his eyes. She turned her head when her door was opened, and looked at a down cast head of black hair that she immediatly recidnized as Harry Potter.

"Sorry to just barge in but Remus told me to check on you." He did look sorry, so she smiled at him.

"It's alright, he has really flipped his lid hasn't he." She turned back to her dog and calmed him down to the intruder. "It's okay Lachlin, his a friend."

Lachlin sat back in submission at this, he was no longer eyeing Harry as a threat. "Want to pet him?" Carina asked Harry.

"Will he bit me?" Harry ventured as he remembered the many encounters with his aunts dogs.

"No, he won't." She smiled reassuringly at him.

Harry crossed the room to Lachlin and slowly extended his hand to him. "So, how are you?" He asked gently.

"Emotionally I'm more stable then most, I have had most of this year to prepare for this. I miss my father, and my friend."

At this Harry pulled his hand back as if it burned. "You miss Snape?"

"Surely you knew he was my friend?" She looked up at him puzzled. He was growing agitaded and seemed on edge now.

"I know you never liked him at Hogwarts, but for years he was my only friend."

"I don't understand your devotedness to the traitor." Harry looked at her with eyes as hard as diamonds daring her to stick up for Snape, she dared.

"Harry, when Sirius was deemed guilty and locked in Azkaban, do you think your father would have abandoned him?"

"Sirius was innocent." Harry said after a pause.

"So is Severus." She looked at him right back in the eyes.

"No he isn't. I was there and saw the whole thing, Dumbledore pleaded with him and Snape killed him."

"How do you know what he was pleading for?" Carina felt a buzz go off in her brain, He was there? How was Harry there!? "Wait what do you mean you saw the whole thing you weren't there!"

"I was under my invisibility cloak. I saw it all."

"Oh Harry." She was torn between holding the poor boy and dancing up and down. "Harry I knew it's highly inconvenient to even ask but I have to know, so may I use your memories in a pensieve?" She begged him.

He was taken aback, she wasn't the only one to have had wanted to see, but he hadn't let any of them see the awful events that flashed through his mind so stingingly. But of all the people who had asked or hinted she seemed to have the right to see, and with her warped view of Snape she need the realism of it all. He knew that if she didn't see first hand then she would more then likely get herself killed trying to stand up for the lunatic traitor. "Fine, do you have a pensieve of do you need me to get one?"

"Please." she almost shaking with excitement and fear and about 1,000 over emotions. She would get it, the proof she needed.

It was a couple days later and Carina sat looking at the pensieve with the memory swirling around in front of her. She knew that as soon as she came out of the pensieve she would be a different person. Either way she would be hurt, but at least one way she could still have her friend and the man she was over the stars in love with. So she dived right in. The memory was the same as it was last time but now she used one of the best things her father had ever taught her, "Legilimens!"

This time instead of the words she heard their thoughts screaming to one another, "Please Albus! Don't make me do this!" the tone in which his voice carried was so desperate that Carina was completely breaking for him, she was right he hadn't wanted anything to do with this. How could her father ask him to do this? This was killing Severus to do this.

"Severus you have too, we have been over this scenario before, you have to, please."

"This is different from a scenario Albus this is your life, please don't make me!"

"Everyone of the Order will die if you don't do this! Even Carina, don't be a coward, do this for her! For me!"

"Avada Kedavra!"

A/N How will Carina react to her fathers strong words, huh? How will Remus react to the truth? Will the Order believe her?
Obsessed.Otaku.of.America - I love the 'O Wise Author' thats so great! Um she has a bit of a fight ahead of her before she gets to openly be with Severus but sneaking around is fun right?

maraudergirl02 -I'm not going to be following the Deathly Hallows at all, it never happened as far as this story goes. I hope thats okay with you. As far as your other questions went I was like wow! Your following the story so good and your question are spot on with what I want people to consider, I can not however answer any of them because i plan to do that in the story, but great thinking skills really!

debjunk- I was so happy that you felt the same way I did when writing it, it means i conveyed what I wanted to and i will give you a faintly whispered ...yes... to your question.